Why Leadership Development Matters for Educators

The Leadership Summit is one of the experiences the National Education Association provides for members to develop their leadership competency. In this video, NEA explains why leadership development is key for developing practitioners and association leaders, at all levels. For more details about the NEA’s Leadership Competency Framework and the annual Leadership Summit, go to www.nea.org/leadershipdevelopment.

Leadership Summit Mission Statement

Purpose of the National Leadership Summit:
To develop activist leaders and prepare them with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to lead relevant, thriving associations and to lead in their professions.

Summit Objectives:
To deliver annually a unified, strategic, and interdisciplinary approach to leadership develop that reinforces and supports key leadership competencies in six strategic areas. The leadership summit is one vehicle to support the institutionalization of a competency-based and continuous learning system designed to develop the next generation of leaders and Activist leaders.

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